HE IS YOUR LIFE NOW!

   






So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it.  Pursue the things over which Christ presides.   Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ - that's where the action is.   See things from His
perspective.
     Your old life is dead.   Your new life, which is your real life - even though invisible to spectators - is with
Christ in God.  He is your life.   When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll
show up, too - the real you, the glorious you.   Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.

     And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death:  sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust,
doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy.   That's
a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God.   It's because of this kind of thing that God is about to
explode in anger.   It wasn't long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better.   But you
know better now, so make sure it's all gone for good:  bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.



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     Don't lie to one another.   You're done with that old life.   It's like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you've stripped off and put in the fire.   Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe.   Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with His label on it.   All the old fashions are now obsolete.   Words
like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilised and uncouth, slave and
free, mean  nothing.   From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.

     So, chosen by God for this new life of love,dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you:
Compassion, Kindness, Humility, Quiet Strength, Discipline.
Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offence.   Forgive as quickly and
completely as the MASTER forgave you.   And regardless of what else you put on, wear LOVE.
It's your basic, all-purpose garment.   NEVER be without it.

     Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other.   None of this going off
and doing your own thing.   And cultivate thankfulness.   Let the WORD OF CHRIST - have the run of the house.   Give it plenty of room in your lives   Instruct and direct one another using good common sense.
And sing, sing your hearts out to God!   Let every detail in your lives - WORDS, ACTIONS, Whatever-
be done in the name of the MASTER JESUS, thanking God the Father every step of the way. COL 3.1-15